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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.

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On the hips tweet regarding Bastoni, from an Italian speaker at SC:

"Regarding the Guarro tweet, 'Lavorare ai fianchi' is a boxing term. Basically, it's means to 'work the sides', that is to throw some punches into the body. In other words, we're softening up the opponent (Inter) and we're doing this, I guess, by having Conte speak to Bastoni to sell the project, having Paratici discuss a fee that Inter's board can accept, doing what we can to help the Bremer deal (perhaps by agreeing payment terms that help Inter secure him), sweetening the deal with Bastoni's agent and family etc. Whatever it takes basically.

As per the metaphor, all this isn't done for the sake of it. It's done so that the opponent's defences are weakened and you can apply the knockout blow i.e. sign him from Inter."
 
Zomb said:
He’s a diving rat and shit at football. Why would anyone want that turd involved? He’s definitely no better than Berg, and Lucas is a far more likeable fella.
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Just because he is a bit of cunt which he is let’s not pretend he is crap, he isn’t he is very difficult to play against and that isn’t related to his play acting.
 
Zomb said:
He’s a diving rat and shit at football. Why would anyone want that turd involved? He’s definitely no better than Berg, and Lucas is a far more likeable fella.
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He single handedly kept Everton in the PL, Spurs could do with such characters like him and Diego Costa who can take it upon themselves to lift the entire team when the situation demands it (doing whatever it takes).
 
JDK said:
On the hips tweet regarding Bastoni, from an Italian speaker at SC:

"Regarding the Guarro tweet, 'Lavorare ai fianchi' is a boxing term. Basically, it's means to 'work the sides', that is to throw some punches into the body. In other words, we're softening up the opponent (Inter) and we're doing this, I guess, by having Conte speak to Bastoni to sell the project, having Paratici discuss a fee that Inter's board can accept, doing what we can to help the Bremer deal (perhaps by agreeing payment terms that help Inter secure him), sweetening the deal with Bastoni's agent and family etc. Whatever it takes basically.

As per the metaphor, all this isn't done for the sake of it. It's done so that the opponent's defences are weakened and you can apply the knockout blow i.e. sign him from Inter."
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They must be open to selling otherwise that’s just blatant tapping up ?

Unless that’s a thing of the past
 
Tomo said:
Yes some games but he is City’s only real striker, if he was elite he would expect to be starting all the time. He is the most Woolwich of players, technically nice but he isn’t a fighter, he is a player that is streaky and does well when the sun shines. Richarlison isn’t perfect but for me he is a far better transfer target than Jesus.
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Richarlison is more talented than Jesus; but Everton will likely try and rip us off given they stayed up. Even with FFP options there are other players they can flog rather than their star man.

My line of thinking is that our big money attacking signing should be SMS (option to switch to 352); and we should keep Bergwijn (instead of sale and replacement with Rich/Jesus). SMS has 11 goals 11 assists from midfield in Serie A last season.
 
Zomb said:
He’s a diving rat and shit at football. Why would anyone want that turd involved? He’s definitely no better than Berg, and Lucas is a far more likeable fella.
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He is a proper whiny cunt, but he's a decent player with great potential. His physicality is something we need.

Son, PEH, Benta, etc and even Kane don't like to throw their weight around. He'd be an absolute star in that regard.
 
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VonnegutBusy said:
I think Bentancur is probably the silkiest of that group of four.

We have two runners in Skipp and PEH already. McKennie seems like another runner with a bit more of a goal threat.

I think more than that we need our next CM to be technically great and a very creative passer which McKennie is not.
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If these improvements do materialise, I think PEH has no place. Clogger with no real creativity. Not a CL contender imo..
 
Elias said:
I really hope we're not going to use Doherty as 1st choice RWB. All Spence would learn from him is how not to control a football.

Given how much we paid for Emerson, and the fact we're unlikely to get anywhere near that fee back, I suspect it's more likely we sell Doherty after Conte partly resurrected his reputation late last season. There are mid-table clubs who might pay decent money for him.

For me, the wild card RWB could well be Adama Traore, who we were very close to signing before he went on loan to his boyhood club.

It looks like Barca won't be signing him permanently, so he may be available. Clearly, Conte saw parts of Adama's game he thought could work in his system. And I don't see why a loan spell where he wasn't used as a WB would change Conte's judgement.

I'm not convinced Adama is good enough defensively to play RWB. But judging by the Perisic story, & other examples of Conte manically working on a player's weaknesses, our coaches would certainly attempt to instil defensive discipline.
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I think Traore would be brilliant linking up with Kulusevski down the right side, I do think we lack a bit of pace and power in the team. Bissouma or Phillips added to our centre midfield would give us a bit more power in midfield too. A midfield 4 of Perisic, Bissouma, Skipp, Traore would be superb I think, especially with the technical skills of Kane and Kulusevski ahead of them.

Instead of teams only having Son to worry about as a player running in behind, they'd have to contend with Perisic and Traore wide too. Though I must confess, I don't know much about Spence, maybe he could provide the same.
 
Elias said:
I really hope we're not going to use Doherty as 1st choice RWB. All Spence would learn from him is how not to control a football.

Given how much we paid for Emerson, and the fact we're unlikely to get anywhere near that fee back, I suspect it's more likely we sell Doherty after Conte partly resurrected his reputation late last season. There are mid-table clubs who might pay decent money for him.

For me, the wild card RWB could well be Adama Traore, who we were very close to signing before he went on loan to his boyhood club.

It looks like Barca won't be signing him permanently, so he may be available. Clearly, Conte saw parts of Adama's game he thought could work in his system. And I don't see why a loan spell where he wasn't used as a WB would change Conte's judgement.

I'm not convinced Adama is good enough defensively to play RWB. But judging by the Perisic story, & other examples of Conte manically working on a player's weaknesses, our coaches would certainly attempt to instil defensive discipline.
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There are definitely pointers to Adama imo, not least the absence of obvious elite RWBs on the market. Traore has obvious weaknesses, but somehow Conte sees a player he could work with. He likes pace and strength for his WBs and Traore works hard too. Maybe he's not 100% convinced, but he's tempted I think. If he goes for him, it's because he has a very specific idea of how he can make it work.
 
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mukiele rwb?

s reactions wars GIF


He got defensive workrate?
 
Elias said:
For me, the wild card RWB could well be Adama Traore, who we were very close to signing before he went on loan to his boyhood club.
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meaningless-friendly said:
I think Traore would be brilliant linking up with Kulusevski down the right side, I do think we lack a bit of pace and power in the team.
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I was a fan of Adama at RWB, and took a lot of flak for it, but have now changed my mind.

He didn't want to come to us in Jan, partly because we wanted him to play RWB. This shows he may not have the commitment for that very strenuous new position.
Also there are some clips of his poor decision making in the defensive third for Barca. I fear he may be too much of a liability defensively.
His lack of goal contributions for Barca where he was playing alongside good players is also concerning.
 
kingdawson said:
Doherty as the starting RWB? no thank you. Doherty as a sub I would accept providing Spence is not the one being brought in to be the starter.

in an ideal world I would replace both Doherty and Royal with Spence being the back up rwb.
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I would agree but I've never seen spence play. And it's a huge step from championship to premiere.
 
FOK said:
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Fucking great player, built for the PL physically, and familiar playing WB as Leipzig plays 3-5-2.

Will be interesting exactly what Conte wants though, he's not exactly a bombing forward WB and often slots in to play RCB. He's quite a big lad, 6'1 and built, really looks more like CB.

Love him as a player but wonder about the stylistic fit, his offensive and chance creation stats are pretty good though but he's a bit more like Emerson than Perisic on the offensive/defensive balance.
 
meaningless-friendly said:
I think Traore would be brilliant linking up with Kulusevski down the right side, I do think we lack a bit of pace and power in the team. Bissouma or Phillips added to our centre midfield would give us a bit more power in midfield too. A midfield 4 of Perisic, Bissouma, Skipp, Traore would be superb I think, especially with the technical skills of Kane and Kulusevski ahead of them.

Instead of teams only having Son to worry about as a player running in behind, they'd have to contend with Perisic and Traore wide too. Though I must confess, I don't know much about Spence, maybe he could provide the same.
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Yes. Instead of this season's scenario of only Sonny running in behind, and the very occasional sneaky forward run from Bentancur or PEH, we would have the options of Perisic , Sonny and Adama all darting forward. Left, right & centre. And both Kane & Kulu have the guile to drop deep & play them in. Opposing teams would be petrified.

Defensively, Conte's WBs primarily have to be disciplined positionally. But with the 3 CB system, they should have a defender covering behind if they get beaten.

I'm not completely convinced by Adama either, but under the dark arts of Mourinho we literally had players taking it in turns to foul him. With our attacking talent, opponents couldn't double up against him.

If it's Doherty or Adama as an attacking RWB, I'd take Adama all day long.
 
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